Paceship Yachts Limited was a

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, and later

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, boat builder originally based in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The company was founded in 1962 and specialized in the design and manufacture of

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History

The company's predecessor was the Mahone Bay Plycraft Company Ltd, which sold

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boats as kits for amateur construction, as well as completed boats. These were marketed under various brand names. Paceship Chance 32-28 Petrel in the Cabot Strait

Paceship Chance 32-28 Petrel in the Cabot Strait

The Industrial Shipping Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ISC) produced plywood boats for Mahone Bay Plycraft in its Mahone Bay factory, until the building burned down in 1956. The factory was rebuilt and plywood boat construction restarted, but it quickly shifted to building boats from a then-new material, fibreglass, becoming one of the earliest builders of fibreglass small powerboats and sailboats. By 1962 the sailboats were produced under the Paceship name and it became a division of ISC. The Paceship division was bought out in 1965 by the Atlantic Bridge Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ABCO), a company that also built powerboats. In 1975 Paceship Yachts and its tooling were sold to American Machine and Foundry (AMF Corp), a large American

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. They relocated Paceship production to

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in the United States, including the

Paceship PY23 The Paceship PY 23 (or PY23) is a Canadian trailerable sailboat, that was designed by John Deknatel of C. Raymond Hunt Associates and first built in 1973.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 188. Internation ...

and PY26 sailboats. Paceship Yachts operated as a division of AMF from 1975 until 1981. The early 1980s recession impacted sailboat sales and, as a result, AMF sold the PY26 design and tooling to

Tanzer Industries Tanzer Industries Limited was a Canadian boat manufacturer based in Dorion, Quebec. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fibreglass sailboats. History The company was founded by Johann Tanzer in 1966 and went bankrupt in May ...

in 1981. Tanzer changed the design to a deck-stepped mast and sold it as the Tanzer 27. Tanzer Industries itself went out of business in May 1986. Atlantic Bridge's fibreglass operations were moved into the former Paceship building and the company was renamed ABCO Plastics Limited, while yacht building ceased. ABCO Plastics was sold in 1988 and renamed ABCO Industries Limited. The former factory location is now owned by Reinforced Plastics Systems Inc.

Boats

Summary of sailboats built by Paceship (year first built by any manufacturer): * Tech Dinghy - 1934 *

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- 1954 * International FJ - 1956 *

East Wind 24 East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

- 1962 *

East Wind 25 East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

- 1962 * Paceship P2-20 - 1962 * Cruisette 20 - 1963 * Paceship P 12 - 1963 * Peregrine 16 - 1963 * Acadian 30 - 1964 * Mouette 19 - 1964 * Paceship 2-16 - 1964 *

Paceship 29 Paceship Yachts Limited was a Canadian, and later American, boat builder originally based in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The company was founded in 1962 and specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. History The company' ...

- 1964 * Paceship 17 - 1966 *

Westwind 24 The Westwind 24, also called the Paceship P 24, is a Canadian trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood as a cruiser and first built in 1966.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 302. International Mar ...

- 1966 * Bluejacket 23 - 1967 * Acadian 30 Yawl - 1968 * Paceship 32 - 1968 *

Northwind 29 The Northwind 29 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by C&C Design and first built in 1969. Production The design was built by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, who completed 104 examples between 1969 and 1972, but it is ...

- 1969 * Paceship 23 - 1969 *

Paceship P 14 Paceship Yachts Limited was a Canadian, and later American, boat builder originally based in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The company was founded in 1962 and specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. History The company's ...

- 1969 * Paceship 20 - 1970 * Chance 32 - 1972 *

Chance 32/28 The Chance 32/28 (also called the Chance 32) is a Canadian and French sailboat, that was designed by naval architect Britton Chance Jr. and first built in 1972. Production The boat was built by Paceship Yachts in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Can ...

- 1972 *

Paceship PY26 The Paceship PY 26 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by John Deknatel, president of C. Raymond Hunt Assoc. and first built in 1972. In 1982, the PY 26 design was developed into the Tanzer 27, with a deck-stepped mast and different inte ...

- 1972 * Chance 29/25 - 1973 *

- 1973 *

Seidelmann 24-1 The Seidelmann 24, sometimes called the Seidelmann 24-1, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Bob Seidelmann, Bruce Kirby and W. Ross, as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1981. Production The design was built by Seide ...

- 1981

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